The Notions we receive of the Devil, _as a Person_ being in Hell _as a Place_, are infinitely absurd and ridiculous; the first we are certain is not true in Fact, because he has a certain Liberty, (_however limited_ that is not to the Purpose) is daily visible, and to be trac'd in his several Attacks upon Mankind, and has been so ever since his first Appearance in _Paradise_; as to his corporal Visibility that is not the present Question neither; 'tis enough that we can hunt him by the Foot, that we can follow him as Hounds do a Fox upon a hot Scent: We can see him as plainly by the Effect, by the Mischief he does, and more by the Mischief he puts us upon doing, _I say_, as plainly, as if we saw him by the Eye. It is not to be doubted but the _Devil_ can see us when and where we cannot see him: and as he has a Personality, tho' it be spirituous, he and his Angels too may be reasonably supposed to inhabit the World of Spirits, and to have free Access from thence to the Regions of Life, and to pass and repass in the Air, as really, tho' not perceptible to us, as the Spirits of Men do after their release from the Body, pass to the Place (wherever that is) which is appointed for them. If the _Devil_ was confin'd to a Place (_Hell_) as a Prison, he could then have no Business here; and if we pretend to describe _Hell_, as not a Prison, but that the Devil has Liberty to be there, or not be there as he pleased, then he would certainly never be there, or _Hell_ is not such a Place as we are taught to understand it to be. Indeed according to some, _Hell_ should be a Place of Fire and Torment to the Souls that are cast into it, but not to the _Devils_ themselves; who we make little more or less than keepers and Turnkeys to Hell, as a Goal; that they are sent about to bring Souls thither, lock them in when they come, and then away upon the Scent to fetch more: That one Sort of _Devils_ are made to live in the World among Men, and to be busy continually debauching and deluding Mankind bringing them as it were to the Gates of _Hell_; and then another Sort are Porters and Carriers to fetch them in. This is, _in short_, little more or less than the old Story of _Pluto_, of _Cerberus_, and of _Charon_; only that our Tale is not half so well told, nor the Parts of the Fable so well laid together.